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Quick: What’s The Difference Between Fake News and Hypernormalisation?
Before the current Coronavirus pandemic, the Canadian government took delivery of the Broadband Telecom Legislative Review. The 235-page report tabled 97 recommendations, most of them bad ones. Among them were provisions for requiring all content creators to obtain a license for operating from the government and “discoverability provisions” to force major tech platforms to emphasize “credible sources of news” over others (what the government calls “Approved Media”).
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Future Fibre: Kaslo infoNet Society
In this midst of this pandemic, we’re finally recognizing the Internet as essential infrastructure (morally but not yet legally).
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Overcapacity / Oversupply Everywhere: Massive Deflation Ahead
The price of a great many assets will crash, out of proportion to the decline in demand.Oil is the poster child of the forces driving massive deflation: overcapacity / oversupply and a collapse in demand. Overcapacity / oversupply and a collapse i…
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Siri: What is a “Unicorn circle jerk”?
Carta, a unicorn that makes dashboards for managing equity investments in other unicorns is laying off staff and sniffing out a cash injection from existing backers. Bloomberg reports that the company is seekng a $200 million investment from existing investors at a $3 billion valuation, up from 1.8B last year. Somewhat incongruent with the “growth story” picture that normally garners such a sharply higher round, Carta is laying off employees. They just axed 161 people…
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Can "Sickcare" Survive the Pandemic?
Like the rest of the financialization machine, sickcare was never sustainable.What was once known as healthcare in the U.S. has largely been replaced by sickcare: healthcare was focused on restoring and maintaining health and w…
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The Impending Disaster Of App Based Contact Tracing
As the inevitable embrace of pervasive health surveillance spreads with the speed of a novel coronavirus, a growing chorus of voices choose sides as the details of these data collection systems emerge.
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Mark E. Jeftovic
Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture.
Jesse Hirsh
Futurist, researcher and public speaker, Jesse Hirsh has been active in technology and commenting on it across the media for 25 years. His premium newsletter service operates from Metaviews.ca.
Charles Hugh Smith
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.
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